The Kremlin and the 2021 Bundestag Elections

Attempts to Influence the Outcome
and Create Instability

By Free Russia Foundation January 11, 2022

Elections to the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, took place on September 26, 2021, and not surprisingly, attracted a great deal of attention. Their outcome determined not just the formation of a new ruling coalition of Europe’s largest economy but changed the head of its government. Angela Merkel left the post of federal chancellor, which she had held since 2005; and Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was elected in her place.

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Kremlin's Malign Influence

The Kremlin’s Influence Quarterly vol.4

This issue of The Kremlin’s Influence Quarterly focuses on the Kremlin malign influence in the areas of European politics and media.

By Anton Shekhovtsov

October 14, 2021

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Propaganda

The Pandemic: Anti-Western rhetoric and information campaign by the Kremlin-controlled Russian media

Today, it is hard to say whether the unraveling COVID-19 pandemic provided the reason for the Russian government to dust off their old textbooks, but the spread of the disease beyond China’s borders served as the occasion for the Russian propaganda to open a new “front” in the information war.

By Free Russia Foundation

June 30, 2021